50th Berlin International Film Festival
The 50th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 9 to 20, 2000.[1] The festival opened with The Million Dollar Hotel by Wim Wenders.[2][3] Bossa Nova by Bruno Barreto, screened out of competition was the closing film of the festival.[4]
The Golden Bear was awarded to Magnolia directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.[5] The retrospective titled Artificial People and dedicated to artificial beings and machines in the films was shown at the festival, screening films like The Golem: How He Came into the World and The Terminator.[6] On its 50th anniversary the premieres of the films in competition at the festival moved from Zoo Palast to Theater am Potsdamer Platz located at Potsdamer Platz.[7]
Contents
Juries

The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:[8]
Main Competition
- Gong Li, Chinese actress - Jury President
- Lissy Bellaiche, Danish member of the Det Danske Filminstitut
- Peter W. Jansen, German scholar and journalist
- Jean Pierre Lefebvre, Canadian filmmaker
- Marisa Paredes, Spanish actress
- Jean-Louis Piel, French producer
- Walter Salles, Brazilian filmmaker and producer
- Maria Schrader, German actress
- Andrzej Wajda, Polish filmmaker
Official Sections
Main Competition
The following films were selected for the main competition:[9]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
---|---|---|---|
Any Given Sunday | Oliver Stone | United States | |
The Beach | Danny Boyle | United States, United Kingdom | |
Boy's Choir | 独立少年合唱団 | Akira Ogata | Japan |
Clouds of May | Mayis Sikintisi | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Turkey |
First Light of Dawn | Prime luci dell'alba | Lucio Gaudino | Italy |
The Hurricane | Norman Jewison | United States | |
The Island Tales | 有时跳舞 | Stanley Kwan | Japan, Hong Kong, China |
The Legend of Rita | Die Stille nach dem Schuß | Volker Schlöndorff | Germany |
Love Me | Laetitia Masson | France | |
Magnolia | Paul Thomas Anderson | United States | |
Man on the Moon | Miloš Forman | United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan | |
The Million Dollar Hotel | Wim Wenders | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | |
Of Woman and Magic | La chambre des magiciennes | Claude Miller | France |
The Road Home | 我的父亲母亲 | Zhang Yimou | China |
Paradiso: Seven Days with Seven Women | Paradiso – Sieben Tage mit sieben Frauen | Rudolf Thome | Germany |
Russkiy bunt | Русский бунт | Aleksandr Proshkin | Russia, France |
The Sea | El mar | Agustí Villaronga | Spain |
Signs and Wonders | Jonathan Nossiter | France | |
Sky Hook | Небеска удица | Ljubiša Samardžić | Yugoslavia, Italy |
The Talented Mr. Ripley | Anthony Minghella | United States | |
Water Drops on Burning Rocks | Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes | François Ozon | France |
Official Awards
Main Competition
The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:[5]
- Golden Bear: Magnolia by Paul Thomas Anderson
- Silver Bear Jury Prize: The Million Dollar Hotel by Wim Wenders
- Silver Bear Special Jury Prize: The Road Home by Zhang Yimou
- Silver Bear for Best Director: Miloš Forman for Man on the Moon
- Silver Bear for Best Actress: Bibiana Beglau and Nadja Uhl for The Legend of Rita
- Silver Bear for Best Actor: Denzel Washington for The Hurricane
- Silver Bear for an Outstanding Artistic Contribution: The Cast of Paradiso: Seven Days with Seven Women
- Alfred Bauer Prize: Boy's Choir by Akira Ogata
Honorary Golden Bear
Berlinale Camera
- Kon Ichikawa
- Wolfgang Jacobsen
Independent Awards
Blue Angel Award
FIPRESCI Award
- Of Woman and Magic by Claude Miller
References
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External links
- Berlin International Film Festival:2000 at Internet Movie Database
- 50th Berlin International Film Festival 2000
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